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Like Napoleon, is Boris Johnson set to return from exile to have his hundred days?
After just 44 days out of power Boris Johnson has announced his intention to return to the top of the Tory Party — but regardless of his undeniable popularity as a relatable, bumbling bon vivant, his Waterloo can't be far off, writes JOHN WIGHT

SOME TIME after the event, Napoleon Bonaparte famously recounted that upon landing on the southern French coast on Wednesday March 1, 1815, from his exile on Elba, he and his followers were soon met by a small crowd of locals.

Among them was the local mayor, who upon seeing how few made up the former and soon to be restored French emperor’s party, told him: “We were just beginning to be quiet and happy; now you are going to stir us all up again.”

A student of history, one wonders if former prime minister Boris Johnson will ponder this particular historical parallel as he wends his way back to Britain via a first class transatlantic flight from his luxury holiday in the Caribbean, having made his intention to return to Number 10 after just 44 days of his own exile from high office?

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